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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Let’s get one thing straight – change is the only constant we can count on. So, how can we strategically navigate change? Organizational change is what we will focus on today.

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

While the C-level and managers will probably lead your organization’s tech selection, you can think of the board as the ultimate executive sponsor. They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts.

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Digital transformation for nonprofits

fusionSpan

You need buy-in from both leadership and your wider team for a digital transformation to be successful. At fusionSpan, we often see leadership asking for a small proof of concept before committing to a full-blown digital transformation. The key to moving forward is the same as any kind of change management – clear communication.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector.

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Why is real teamwork so rare?

ASU Lodestar Center

Assembly line concepts are so ingrained in our society that they find their way into management theory as well. We assign roles, divide the work and get started. The problem is that with the quickly changing landscape of today’s challenges the assembly line concept is not agile enough to adapt to those changes.

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I Signed up for What?! A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness

sgEngage

Use a proactive lens towards the post-award phase and understand if modifications are needed from a programmatic, financial, and operations vantage.

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Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation

sgEngage

Designed to test innovations, sprints are short, repeatable phases that allow teams to iterate ideas, follow their curiosity, and deliver results. Very common in the tech industry, sprints are little pockets of progress (those measurable, deadline-driven micro-objectives Myers mentioned as part of the OKR framework).